Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Beach Towels (1982)

Because if there’s two things that go together, it’s AD&D and the beach. And the towels must be used at the beach, because “beach towel” is printed right there at the top. Try not to lose your dice in the sand, gamers.

David Sutherland art appears on both towels. In fact, the two in the first photo belonged to Sutherland and appear at The Collector’s Trove. The second and third images are via eBay.

UPDATE: Zenopus (of Zenopus Archives) kindly sent in this photo of a third towel. (Thanks again, Z.)

It’s definitely from the same series, but I can’t tell who the artist is. I don’t recall seeing the design anywhere else. What monster do you think is guarding the treasure (‘X’ marks the spot), considering the adventurers are already tackling a red dragon?

Please contact me (2warpstoneptune@gmail.com) if you spot a different towel, or if you find close-ups of the giant centipede/dungeon towels.

UPDATE (6/30/14): The righteous “Mr. D.” sent in these detailed views of the dungeon crawl towel seen above. Great stuff.

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I had the knight / blue dragon one. No idea if I still do, but I seem to recall hanging onto it beyond my teen years. I’ll give a couple likely boxes a quick search tonight, and post pics on my blog if I can dig it up.

Heheh. I got my sense of preservation from my dad. You should see the stuff he managed to save from when he was a kid. I’ll look to see if I got any pictures of his Robin Hood castle set, or the old west towns. We’re talking stuff from the early 1950s…

Anyway, I just did a photo shoot of some of the stuff I dug out when looking for the towel, since I’m snowed in today. I’m heading over now to post them to my blog…